Paradigms regained (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783985540228)

The volume discusses the breadth of applications for an extended notion of paradigm. Paradigms in this sense are not only tools of morphological description but constitute the inherent structure of grammar. Grammatical paradigms are structural sets forming holistic, semiotic structures with an informational value of their own. We argue that as such, paradigms are a part of speaker knowledge and provide necessary structuring for grammaticalization processes. The papers discuss theoretical as well as conceptual questions and explore different domains of grammatical phenomena, ranging from grammaticalization, morphology, and cognitive semantics to modality, aiming to illustrate what the concept of grammatical paradigms can and cannot (yet) explain.

Author: Gabriele Diewald, Katja Politt
ISBN-10: 3985540225
ISBN-13: 9783985540228
Publisher: Language Science Press
Language: English
Published: 01/11/2022
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.69lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.81d